Huntsville gazette., 1887-06-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

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100000, brought in a verdict on the 9th
sustaining the last will, giving the whole
property to the wife. Colonel A. D. Mel
son, OF Marysville, KY, hal made several
wills, dividing the property equally be-
tween his wife and only sister. Ten hours
before his death, in December, 1885, in
Georgia, he made new will, giving all to
his wife. The sister contested the will.
THE ninth annual s,nngressssf the Amer
lean LaryngciogIcal Association, held in
New York, closed it's sessions on the 2Sth.
The President has authorized the allot-
ment of lands in severalty to the Indians
on the Muckleshoot reservation in Wash
ington Territory.
THE Erie railroad freight depot at
Brooklyn, toge sher with a number of
loaded cars, was burned on the night of
the 2Sth; loss, 100000.
JAY GOULD IS suffering with an attack
of neuralgia at his home at Irvington on
on the Hudson.
THE LORNA Palmer Cooperage factory
in Williamsburg, N. Y, was totally de-
stroyed by fire on the night OF the 2Sth.
1t covered an entire square; loss, nearly
$2O0,O
HEAVY hail storms visited Sullivan and
Delaware counties, N. Y, on the 2Sth and
along the Erie railway snow fell to the
depth of half an inch
REV. DR.. MCGLYNN, in conversation with
former parishioner in Meriden, Conn,
on the 2Sth, stated that he intended to
start for Rome within twenty days.
A MINE explosion occurred on the 29th,
near Glasgow, Scotland, in which seven
ty-five men lost their lives.
The Governors of New Jersey and
Mo- ohuc of hx,
the Saturday Night Club in New ork on
the evening of the 2Sth.
A NUMBER of cases of flowers were re-
ceived in New Y ork on the 2Sth from all
parts of the Union to be placed upon the
tomb of General Grant at Riverside.
TIE PostOffice Department has award
ed to the American Bank Note Company
of New York the contract for supplying
postal notes for the next four years. The
Bureau of Engraving and Printing will
supply the money order drafts.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS has recon mended
that suit be instituted to cancel the pat
ent to the Buena Vista grant, comprising
5000 acres of land in California, on the
ground that the patent was procured by
fraud.
LATEST reports from the scene of the ac-
cident ON the Pennsylvania railroad at
Horseshoe Bend, state that six pers ons
were killed and eight injured
THE bodies Of six hundred Chinese are
be disinterred. at San Francisco this
week and shipped home to the Flowery
kingdom for final interment.
A NUMBER of the participants in the
recent riots at the Jimtown, (Pa.) coke
wo"ks were arrested on the sSth, and
lodged in Jail at Uniontown. Much ex-
element exists throughout the coke
region. ts8 .-.t4f ...
EDITOR O'BRIEN left Montreal on the
night of the 2Sth for Boston. He and
Kilbride were given a hearty farewell by
a crowd that assembled to witness their
departure.
TIE district of Orissa, India, was COM
pletely devastated by a cyclone on the
27th A Calcutta steamer with 75) per-
sons on board is thought to have foua-
dered.
DAVID HITEs, of Oskaloosa, Ia, has been
Jailed for the murder of John Fall and
wife. He is insane.
CARDINAL GIBBONS sailed on the 29th
from Queenstown for New York. #fe
THE remains of Ben Perley Poore, who
died on the 2Sth, were shipped from
Washington to Boston on the goth.
Rev. T. DEWITT TALMAGE delivered an
eloquent sermon before the IN .litia at
Washington on the afternoon of the 29th.
AN earthquake visited the City OF Mexico
on the morning of the goth.
CLARENCE HOUSE, Herbert Jones and
Estella Cool were drowned in the Mohawk
near Utica, n. Y, on the 29th by the cap
sizing Of their pleasure beat.
LYDIA WILLIAMSON, an aged spinster,
ir,h of
burn, R. l., on the night of the E9.h. 1t
is thought that an overturned lamp
caused the fire. fUtt
THE largest tobacco warehouse in Wis
consin was partly destroyed by fire at
Stoughton, on the Goth. Loss, s100O00
The loss falls heaviest on Miller & Put
nam and Atkinson Bros. of Stoughton.
DECORATION DAY was generally OBJ
served throughout the country.
In the ocean yacht races at New York
on the 3oth the Shamrock was victor.
CANADIAN farmers want all trade re-
strictions with the United States re-
moved
THREE fishermen were drowned near
Putin Bay island, in Lake Erie, on the
30th.
THE awards were made on the Both OF
the prizes won in the National drill at
Washington.
GENERAL BouLANGER has asked for
furlongh because of ill-health e.
FATAL boiler explosions occurred on the
Both at Huntington, w. Va, and Syracuse,
N. Y. f
Ex-SECRETARY MANNING's health, In
Guiding his impaired eyesig ght, is reported
fully restored
The four-year old daughter OF Green
Baerry Davis, of Woods Run, Pa, died
on the 29th from hydr.phobia, having been
bitten by dog in November year ago.
A sKIFF containing three coal miners,
named David Jones, David Reese and Da-
vid Llewellyn, capsized in the Mononga-
hela river, at Monongahela City, on the
3Oth, and the men were drowned.
AN Austrian postal cerk named Zalov-
ski has absconded from Vienna. with
registered letters containing bank notes
to the amount of S75, 00l
In the three mile. with turn, single
scuu race, on Lake Quinsigamond on the
3Oth, between Ten Egck, of Worcesfef,
Mass, and Laing of Toronto, Ten Eye
won easily by three lengths. Time, 2o:4l.
The negro, Patterson, accomplice OF
Turner in the murder of Jennie Bowman, ,
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